25-year-old widow Oleksandra Rurak visits her soldier husband Volodymyr Rurak's grave with her one and a half year old daughter, after he was killed in action, in Lviv, western Ukraine, on April 5, 22

'The Irony of Ukraine' With Gideon Rose

The Brian Lehrer Show | Apr 5, 2022

Gideon Rose, distinguished fellow in U.S. Foreign Policy at the Council on Foreign Relations, the former editor of Foreign Affairs and author of How Wars End (Simon & Schuster, 2010), explains why he thinks there are similarities between Russia's invasion in Ukraine and much of U.S. foreign policy and wars over the past few decades.

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